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...impoverished villagers in the remote Nuristan province. The Taliban have claimed responsibility...murders in the remote Parun valley of Nuristan province, alleging that the members...mountains to reach the isolated villages of Nuristan province, Kemtuz said. The attackers...

...Friday while returning from a meeting with village elders in Nuristan province. Militants wielding rocket propelled grenades killed...back, last year we didn't have a significant presence in Nuristan and now we do," he said. "That all contributes to the fact...

...Nuristani said Afghan soldiers told him Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was meeting with top deputy Kashmir Khan in the Dohabi district of Nuristan province on Sunday, sparking a fierce bombardment. The Defense Ministry said Hekmatyar wasn't the target but that fighters...

...helicopters struck civilians on Friday in eastern Afghanistan, though the Defense Ministry said Sunday that attack at the Nuristan-Kunar border killed or wounded 20 militants. U.S. Army Gen. David D. McKiernan, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan...

...led NATO forces launched airstrikes against Taliban insurgents who had forced government forces to abandon a district in Nuristan, a remote province on the Pakistan border. NATO also said it killed one of the Taliban's top two commanders in the insurgent...

...the war on U.S. troops, the Defense Ministry said. Ten Afghan soldiers were also killed during the operations since Monday, most of them in Nuristan province's Kamdesh district, ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said.

...military officials said Sunday. The fierce gunbattle, which erupted at dawn Saturday in the Kamdesh district of mountainous Nuristan province and raged throughout the day, is likely to fuel the debate in Washington over the direction of the troubled eight-year...

...logistics personnel - were attacked as they were returning to Kabul after their two-week mission in the remote Parun valley of Nuristan province about 160 miles north of Kabul. They had decided to veer northward into Badakhshan province because they thought...

...less on remote and thinly populated places such as eastern Nuristan. They hope to move responsibility for those areas to the Afghan...Last week Afghan forces carried out an operation in eastern Nuristan, a Taliban stronghold, with only support from coalition forces...

...Saturday. U.S. troops used artillery to repel the attack in Nuristan province Friday, and helicopters rushed the wounded soldiers...along the mountainous Afghan-Pakistan border, including Nuristan, opening military bases in one of the wildest region in the...